PHLEUM PRATENSE. 



TIMOTHY, OR MEADOW OATSTAIL. 



Eootstocli perennial, somewhat creeping. Stems 

 1 to 3 feet, erect and smooth. Leaves short, flat, and 

 soft ; sheath smooth ; ligule oblong. Panicle spike- 

 like, cylindrical, elongate, and compact. Spikelets 

 one-flowered, laterally compressed. Empty glumes 

 larger than flowering glumes, equal, each with stiff 

 hairs on the keel and a short scabrid terminal awn. 

 Palea minute and pointed. Flowering glumes much 

 smaller than empty glumes, toothed and awnless. 

 Flowers end of June to August. Grows in meadows 

 and pastures throughout Europe, North Africa, Siberia, 

 and Western Asia. 



ANALYSIS. 



Water . 

 ♦Soluble albuminoids 

 **Insoluble albuminoids 

 Digestible fibre 

 Woody fibre . 

 f Soluble mineral matter 

 ff Insoluble mineral matter 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, cfcc 



G-rass in 

 Natural State. 



39-99 



•25 



2-19 



12-74 



31-97 



3-59 



1-26 



8-01 



Dried at 

 212° Eahr. 



•43 



3-63 



21-23 



53-27 



5-98 



2-09 



13-37 



100-00 100-00 



» Containing Nitrogen . . .... -04 



** Containing Nitrogen •SS 



Albuminoid Nitrogen •SO 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen ^48 



Total Nitrogen -87 



t Containing Silica -27 



ft Containing Silica -69 



■65 

 ■80 



■45 

 1'16 



166 



